AMES, Iowa – Alan Wanamaker, working as a postdoctoral researcher from 2007 to 2009, was charged with beginning to compile a 1,000-year record of the marine climate for a spot in the North Atlantic ...

Quahog clams provide evidence that critical North Atlantic Ocean currents may be approaching a “tipping point,” researchers said. Mehdi Benkaci Unsplash Just as tree rings can tell us how old a tree ...

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Something in the Atlantic is shifting, though it is not easy to see from the surface. There are no dramatic waves or sudden storms to mark it out. Instead, the change is slow and buried deep in the ...

Just as tree rings can tell us how old a tree is and the climate conditions it endured, bivalves like quahog clams and dog cockles can tell a story about the history of the ocean. And they’re telling ...